For many groups of people the battle for liberty, civil rights, and equal access has been hard fight. This includes people who a

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问题     For many groups of people the battle for liberty, civil rights, and equal access has been hard fight. This includes people who are 【S1】______. After World War I, many soldiers returned from battle 【S2】______ disabled. Prior to this war, the US government granted a pension to disabled veterans. However, the help they needed to re-adjust to life with a disability was 【S3】______. The government stepped in to help. Now disabled veterans ware given the 【S4】______ to learn skills needed to find work and 【S5】______ their daily activities. However, disabled non-veterans were still without 【S6】______ until 1935. Under the direction of Franklin D. Roosevelt(who himself was disabled due to polio), the Social Security Program was formed. This program included payments to the permanently disabled to assist them in living. After centuries of being thought of as "burdens to society," public
    【S7】______ towards the disabled began to change.
    In 1990, Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990(ADA). President George H. W. Bush signed the law on July 26. The purpose of this law is to protect the civil rights of disabled people. It 【S8】______ a disability as having a condition that prevents a person from being able to do certain things. It prohibits 【S9】______ of anyone with a disability in the areas of education, employment, transportation, telecommunications, public services, housing, and business. The act is a comprehensive law 【S10】______ to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

             Word Bank:
A. sentiment            I. marks
B. unhealthy            J. disabled
C. similar              K. permanently
D. regain               L. missing
E. discrimination       M. opportunity
F. rejected             N. temporarily
G. assistance           O. defines
H. obtain

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答案J

解析 从语法结构看,这里缺少表语成分,选项中既能充当表语又能形容人的单词有unhealthy和disabled,两个单词中前者意义范围较广,涵盖后者。从下文语境看,本文主要围绕残疾人的权利保护这一话题,因此最佳答案是disabled。
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